As Promised, here is the link for the Casket of Fictional Delights' podcast of the winning flash fictions read by real actors and actresses. Cannot believe my story won this competition with so many good pieces. You could do a lot worse than tune in to listen to these stories. Lovely work.
http://www.thecasket.co.uk/audio/
Saturday 28 October 2017
Tuesday 17 October 2017
CASKET OF FICTIONAL DELIGHTS
Just to say that you can read a wee flash of mine here
It was winner in The Casket of Fictional Delights' annual flash fiction competition judged this year by Kit De Waal. I entered this competition for the same reason I enter all the competitions I enter - it is always a thrill for me to have someone read my work. I was so pleased to reach the shortlist and to have Kit read my piece and to then have her say such kind things about my craft. Thanks to her and to Joanna Sterling who runs 'Casket' and who also said some nice things about the story.
Congratulations to Neem Shah and Zoe Meager who also did well in this competition, and to all the others on the shortlist. You can read their pieces on the site.
At a later date you will be able to hear the pieces read by a real actor/actress. I will post a link here when that happens.
It was winner in The Casket of Fictional Delights' annual flash fiction competition judged this year by Kit De Waal. I entered this competition for the same reason I enter all the competitions I enter - it is always a thrill for me to have someone read my work. I was so pleased to reach the shortlist and to have Kit read my piece and to then have her say such kind things about my craft. Thanks to her and to Joanna Sterling who runs 'Casket' and who also said some nice things about the story.
Congratulations to Neem Shah and Zoe Meager who also did well in this competition, and to all the others on the shortlist. You can read their pieces on the site.
At a later date you will be able to hear the pieces read by a real actor/actress. I will post a link here when that happens.
Sunday 8 October 2017
BE KIND TO YOURSELF AND TO OTHERS
ON KINDNESS - by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor
Kindness is something necessary, something we all need (to receive and to give). We all know this - in some part of us we know it - but life, modern life, is inclined to disable it. This wee book (but really a 'big' book) as well as mapping the history of human kindness, reaffirms the absolute need for kindness in all of us. Even ants can be self-sacrificial, giving their lives to save the colony. It is more natural than we might think. But then cruelty is also natural… and so there is a job for us to do in teaching children (and others) of the virtue of kindness. And to those that argue that being kind is a sort of egoism - well, to quote one philosopher, 'If this is self-love, be it so…' and to quote this book: 'for nothing can be better than this self-love, nothing more generous'.
Worth a read. I bought the hardback edition with a light blue page ribbon… because I was being kind to myself!
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